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15 June 2013       Howard Civil Service International House, 14F Conference room

8:30-8:50

Opening Remarks:

Professor Mitsuo Matsushita, Chairman, AWRN

Mr. Takashi Iwamoto, Secretariat, AWRN

Professor Chang-fa Lo, Host, 2013 AWRN Conference

Professor Jau-yuan Hwang, Associate Dean, NTU College of Law

Session 1

8:50-10:50

Asian Countries’ Participations

Chair: Junji Nakagawa

1.       

Key Issues for Japanese to Participate in the TPP Negotiations

Mitsuo Matsushita, AWRN Chairman; Former WTO AB Member; Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

2.       

The TPP: Challenge or Opportunity to China's FTA Strategy?

Henry Gao, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University

3.       

India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: Ramifications

R. Rajesh Babu, Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

4.       

Taiwan and Asia Pacific Economic Integration

Da-nien Liu, Research Fellow and Director, The Regional Development Study Center, Chung-Hua Institute for Economic Research, Taiwan

10:50-11:10

Tea Break and Group Photos

Session 2

11:10-13:10

Models and Prospects

Chair: Lawan Thanadsillapakul

5.       

TPP and RCEP (ASEAN + 6) as Competing Models for Asian Integration

Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law Victoria University of Wellington/Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo Law School

6.       

ASEAN + One  Commitments and RECEP:  Challenges and Opportunities

Margaret Liang, Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for WTO and Trade Issues, Adjunct Professor, Law Faculty, National University of Singapore

7.       

Global Supply Chains and FTAs in East Asia and the Pacific

Junji Nakagawa, Professor of International Economic Law, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

13:10-14:00

Lunch Break

Session 3

14:00-15:30

Assessments

Chair: Margaret Liang

8.       

The Trans-­‐Pacific Partnership

Trade Negotiations: Some

Outstanding Issues for the Final Stretch

Deborah K. Elms, Head, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations S. Rajaratnam School of Int’l Studies Nanyang Technological University

9.       

The Benefits and Burdens of the TPP

Bryan Mercurio, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), the Chinese University of Hong Kong 

10.    

Assessing the Rise of Protectinist Measures among ASEAN as Moving toward AEC

Watcharas Leelawath, Deputy Executive Director, International Institute for Trade and Development (ITD), Bangkok, Thailand

15:30-15:50

Tea Break

Session 4

15:50-17:20

Services and Monetary Matters

Chair: Mingkang Gu

11.    

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: Implications for Liberalization of Services

Anuradha R.V., Partner, Clarus Law Associates, New Delhi

12.    

The Liberalization of Legal Services in ASEAN

Pasha L. Hsieh, Assistant Professor,

Singapore Management University School of Law

13.    

Monetary Integration and Financial Cooperation in Asian Context

Chien-Huei Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

18:30-

Keynote Speech by Letizia Raschella-Sergi: A New Initiative of WTO Moot Court Competition for Asia-Pacific Students

ACWH 10^th Anniversary Dinner Party (food, speeches by the Friends of ACWH, video show…)

16 June 2013       Room 1301, Tsai Lecture Hall, College of Law, National Taiwan University

Session 5

9:00-10:00

DS and Trade Remedies

Chair: Meredith Kolsky Lewis

14.  

Asian FTA Dispute Settlement Systems: Issues and Problems

Dukgeun Ahn, Professor/International Trade Law & Policy, Seoul National University

15.  

Anti-dumping Actions between Taiwan and the Mainland, Before and After the ECFA

Minkang Gu, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, City University of Hong Kong

10:00-10:10

Tea Break

Session 6

10:10-12:10

Competition and Investment

Chair: Bryan Mercurio

16.    

The Rationale for Economic Regulation: Enforcement of ASEAN Competition Law and Policy from an Economic Integration Perspective

Lawan Thanadsillapakul, Professor of Law, Kyushu University (Japan); Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, School of Law (Thailand)

17.    

Regionalisation of Competition Regulation in ASEAN: Prospects and Challenges

Haniff Ahamat, Assistant Professor, Ahmad Ibrahim Faculty of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

Co-presenter:

Nasarudin Abdul Rahman,Assistant Professor, Ahmad Ibrahim Faculty of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

18.    

The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements in Asia-Pacific – The TPP as a NAFTA-Related ‘Codification’

Julien Chaisse, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong

19.    

Preventing Tobacco Industry Investment Challenge at TPP: Exclusion of Tobacco Control Measures from Investor-State Arbitration

Tsai-yu Lin, Director, ACWH; Professor, NTU College of Law

12:10-13:10

Lunch Break

Session 7

13:10-15:40

IP, Public Health, Environment and Human Rights

Chair: Dukgeun Ahn

20.    

Intellectual Property and Asia’s Plurilateral Trade Agreements

Tsai-fang Chen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University

21.    

Implications of the US TPP proposal for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector on trade, innovation and access to medicine: Preliminary assessment through textual analysis

Pei-kan Yang, Associate Professor,

Department of International Business, National Chengchi University

22.    

A Greener Multilateral Trade Agreement? The Approaches to Environmental Issues in The TPP Negotiations

Ching-wen Hsueh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University

23.    

An Argument about the Desirability for Regional Trade Agreement to Include Natural Disaster Relief Mechanism

Huei-ying Shiu, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Institute of National Development, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

24.    

Plurilateral Trade Agreements to Enhance Human Rights Protection in Asia

Chang-fa Lo, Justice, Constitutional Court, Taiwan, ROC; Professor, NTU College of Law

15:40-16:00

Concluding Remarks (by Professor Tsai-yu Lin, Director, ACWH) and Tea Break

16:00-18:00

AWRN Business Meeting (for AWRN members and invited speakers only)

19:00-

Farewell Dinner